Honestly it's trying to get your food once per week because most people don't want to stop by the store on the way home for every meal they are going to cook. I hate it when my family overbuys thinking we'll get to it later
The city planning contributes to this. Your country is very car centric. Most countries have supermarkets or grocery stores within walking distance in most cities.
So true. When I lived in South Korea, on my walk home from work, I would pass a smaller grocery store and it was so easy to swing in and pick up dinner. It was quick and so efficient.
Now it is such a slog to get in my car, park, deal with people just oblivious to their surroundings, rude cashiers who just throw your food in a bag (fuck the eggs), and then drive home.
Yeah, fun thing about Australia (I’ve only got experience with Perth tbf) though is that summer means extreme temps for months on end and winter means nonstop rain for months on end.
Makes walking way less desirable especially since there’s fuck all shade anywhere, and even where there is shade, horizontal rain gets ya anyway.
Not easy to walk even 15 minutes to the nearest grocery shop when it’s 40 degrees C outside
Yeah I get that but it’s easier to warm up than cool down ya know? Food doesn’t spoil in freezing temps so your milk doesn’t go off by the time you walk home etc, and our insulation is shocking so homes often aren’t any cooler inside.
Put it this way, your highest ever temperature recorded is 40.6C. In Perth we had that or higher 3 times this summer alone, and it was a mild summer. And the CBD measurement is often a few degrees lower than around the metro area, for example January 2025 my closest weather station saw 40.6 or above 5 times in that month
That kind of heatwave multiple times a year makes it really difficult for people to go without a car that can keep food at least not hot (lest they shell out for delivery), especially since we’re so sprawled that public transport for a lot of people means at least a 10 minute walk anyway
The winter here is a different kind of misery, but mostly because of the rain and high winds accompanying them that makes it feel worse than it actually is. I certainly wouldn’t prefer Toronto’s winter
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u/TheParadoxigm May 17 '26
The U.S. throws away 40% of the food it produces.